We ring in Season Four of FOP with a 2-hour special!

• Marc meets a local celebrity
• Mike gives his State of the Plate address
• It's Easter, which means another homemade plate. This one looked incredible.
• Mike also shattered his previous record for how quickly he ate the whole thing.
• What NYers moving to FL should know
• Should we set up toll booths to beg from those who are about to escape?
• When you go to a new place, what do you order?
• When you go to a familiar place, do you have a go-to dish?
• Kodak shocks the world with sales growth
• "Rochester's biggest asset is its people"
• Confessions from the McQ Chapel
• People who've made us homemade garbage plates
• Does money grow on... casinos?
• A special guest joins us for the second half!

We review

• Flaherty's Honeoye Falls
• Connie's Diner
• Canal Days Festival in Fairport
• Rochester Shepherd's Pie
• Qdoba Baltimore
• Homemade fried rice
• Rivers Casino Schenectady
• Irish Mafia Bloomfield - pretzels and breakfast burger w tots
• Wimpy's Burger Basket
• Garbage Plate Salad?
• Karl's Top 5 American and Top 5 Italian restaurants in Roch
• Karl's homemade timpano
• Tony D's

We remember

• Marc's turkey/egg/avocado croissant, RIP
• That one Waffle House that's now takeout only
• Crescent Beach in Greece

Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

Tonight on FOP!

We discuss

• Why Antarctica is better than Rochester
• Mike's Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains?
• Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast?
• Why did Wegmans slip in customer satisfaction? Where do we shop?
• White pizza - do non-Rochestarians know what it is?
• Pancake syrup
• Coaches who yelled at us, and why we're better off because of it

We review

• Plate of the month: Naantastic's fried grouper - over rice, quinoa, cucumber, corn, craisins, chickpeas, drizzled with sweet tamarind chutney sauce. Insane.
• Rubino's Chicken French w potatoes
• Cafe Vesuvio's in New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Faircraft Brauhaus, Fairport, NY
• Sip N Jerk Jamaican Foodtruck, and Joe n Sal's Pizza, in Brooklyn, NY
• The Spicey Pickle, and Favorite's Pizza, Lewiston, NY
• Steak n Shake
• Gino's Pizza and Dolly's Diner, WV
• 7-11 in Seabreeze, NY
• Grand Super Buffet and China Buffet, Henrietta, NY

Thanks for telling other escapees about the show, because I'm pretty sure there are no more inmates left.

Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester's rottenness and fawning over the food.

We reminisce:

• B&W television (Marc still owns one)
• Local TV news and their anchors
• "500 Anytime Minutes"
• Mike's HS nickname
• Back when life was finite and manageable
• "Mister Food" on local cable

We discuss:

• The Shamrock Shake
• Italian grandparents cooking on YouTube (Look up Chef Pasquale and Grandma Gina!)
• Mike's meatball birthday party
• Meatloaf vs meatballs
• Pasta Fazool - what is the best broth consistency?
• "Game worn" Josh Allen Buffalo wing sauce bibs
• Mike's Florida trip - what he ate and how he watched WROC-TV8 on the beach

We review:

• Gia's and Fairfield's - pillars of Italian greatness on the east side
• Featured Dish: Gia's Artichoke French
• Phillips Seafood in Newark, NJ Airport
• Centric Hots in Kodak Park (diced peppers and onions! what a genius idea)
• Coco Garden Malaysian Restaurant in Henrietta

Mike brings the articles:

• Canada's Open Home Program: Food brings people together
• What one guy did when he received his Doordash of Steak Tartar
• "Per Tutti" Italian kids school in LI
• Top 2 cheapest NY cities by median home sale prices - but what about property taxes?
• Is Syracuse or Rochester larger, in terms of zip codes?
• NYS is reaching out and taxing people who've already escaped, and people who remotely work for NY companies, and what you have to do avoid their reach.
• How many people escape NY per minute
• A new industry in Rochester: Stealing from the elderly

Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!